Why kill so many of one’s own population of serfs and nearly cripple their domestic economy?
#27. When you have about 1.3-1.5 Billion people to feed, knocking off a few hundred thousand of them is almost irrelevant. Knocking off tens of thousands of people in other countries, esp. those of the West and crippling their economies - PRICELESS.
Not only did Taiwan Health authorities try to notify WHO that there was human-to-human spread in December (I would guess Taiwan has excellent Intel sources in China), Taiwan also announced a travel ban from Wuhan on December 31st! They knew, but We listened to WHO, which should be renamed WET-HO (World Except Taiwan Health Organization).